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tency undistinguishable. Crystals, for example, are 

 formed simply by the immediate action of the spirit. 

 It is only in the plant that force rises to some sort 

 of individuality. Here there is a vital unity which 

 attracts to itself homogeneous elements, and thus 

 gives to itself an outer form. Such force is life, and 

 such form an organism. At the next higher stage 

 force becomes animal life. Here the central life has 

 sensation, and is able to bring its organism into dif- 

 ferent relations to the outer world. Such life, or 

 force, we call soul : such a sensitive, movable, soul- 

 subservient organism is a body. 



" The body is rooted with all the fibres of its being 

 in the soul. Nay, the soul, on its nature-side, bears 

 already within itself the essence, the potentiality, of 

 a body ; and it needs only to draw to itself the proper 

 elements from the outer world, in order that the 

 germinally extant inner body actually posit itself as 

 a crude outer body, even as the virtually extant tree, 

 in the ungerminated seed, needs only to unfold its 

 potency in order to become a real tree. 



" The body appears, therefore, as an integral ele- 

 ment of human nature, both in this state of proba- 

 tion, and in the future state of eternal perfection. 



" Jesus spiritualized his inner man, his soul, in its 

 unity of spirit and of nature. Thus, also, he laid 

 the foundation for the transfiguration, the ideal 

 spiritualization, of his body, inasmuch as the essence 

 of the visible body is grounded in the soul. This 

 process was an inner hidden one. The hidden reality 

 shone forth only in occasional gleams, — in those 



